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This study was conducted to secure information about various academic and organizational aspects of pre-service science methods courses for elementary school teachers. About 65 percent of all respondents to the questionnaire indicated a semester plan in existence as against 27 percent for a quarter system for preparing elementary teachers. Most colleges offered a course in Teaching Science in the Elementary School for one quarter or semester. Very few colleges offered such courses for more than two sequential terms. Many schools placed equal emphasis during science methods courses upon ways to teach science and upon the acquisition of scientific knowledge. Such courses were taken generally by prospective elementary school teachers during their junior or senior years. Most frequently the college of education controlled such courses but in some colleges it was controlled by division of science. Most science methods educators in colleges had participated in new science curriculum workshops or training sessions. These new curriculum projects had had a definite impact on the nature of the course in general and specifically on instructional procedures emphasizing the processes of science. (PS)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert